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Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) wowed Wall Street Tuesday with an impressive holiday-quarter earnings report that included big EPS and revenue beats and 43 percent U.S. e-commerce sales growth. Walmart also reiterated its fiscal 2020 guidance for same-store sales growth of between 2.5 percent and 3 percent...

Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) shares jumped higher Thursday on a fourth-quarter earnings beat and were continuing the gains Friday. Toy investors were by and large satisfied, but analysts remain divided.  "We have seen turnaround stories in some dead old names," said...

Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) reported a fourth-quarter earnings beat and record oil & gas production. Lower expenses helped trigger a 20 percent rise in EPS to $1.95, but quarterly revenue of $42.35 billion came up short of consensus estimates of $46.13 billion. Several Wall Street analysts...

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) stock surged more than 10 percent Thursday, its best day in nine years. The strong move came following GE’s fourth-quarter earnings report in which the company reported a revenue beat and an earnings miss. GE guided for “low-to-mid single digits”...

Most of the time, exchange traded funds adding the most assets qualify as plain vanilla funds, or those funds that can be used as “core” holdings. Think traditional S&P 500 tracking funds or products like the Vanguard Total Market ETF (NYSE: VTI) and the iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (...

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) on Sunday brought WrestleMania back to New Orleans for the first time since 2014. Four years may not seem like a long time, but it likely seems like a lifetime for WWE investors, who have been on quite a ride since WrestleMania last came to the Big...

Investors looking to circle their wagons around the still-lagging value factor in hopes value stocks will rebound later this year have plenty of exchange traded funds to consider. That group includes the SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Value ETF (NYSE: SPYV). The $1.33-billion SPYV is CFRA Research'...

The iShares Transportation Average ETF (CBOE:IYT), the largest exchange-traded fund dedicated to transportation stocks, is lower by almost 3 percent this year, but some analysts believe the sector can rebound. The iShares Transportation Average ETF tracks the widely followed Dow Jones...

Emerging markets are delivering for investors in 2017. The widely followed MSCI Emerging Markets Index is up 33 percent this year, and two emerging markets exchange traded funds — the iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE: IEMG) and the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE: VWO)...

The health care sector, the third-largest sector weight in the S&P 500, recently pulled back as investors rotated into perceived value destinations. The Health Care Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLV), the largest health care exchange traded fund by assets, is flat in the current quarter, but still...

Two obvious themes from the world of exchange traded funds this year are Vanguard's jaw-dropping growth and investors' preference for ex-U.S. developed markets funds. Those themes meet in the Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (NYSE: VEA). Year-to-date, investors have added $16.2 billion...

It's easy for investors to get wrapped up in the conversation regarding fees on exchange traded funds. For investors planning to hold an ETF for a year, three years, five years or longer, fees matter. Investors' increasingly fee-savvy ways are prompting fund issuers to bring new,...

With equity markets rewarding risk-taking this year, it is not surprising that some of the best-performing factor-based exchange-traded funds offer investors exposure to growth and momentum stocks. The iShares Edge MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF (BATS: MTUM), the largest momentum-based ETF, is up...

Among individual investment factors, growth is proving sturdy this year. While some investors are waiting on a value resurgence, the iShares S&P 500 Growth ETF (NYSE: IVW) is up more than 19 percent year to date, well ahead of the S&P 500. IVW, which tracks the S&P 500 Growth Index, has...

Fixed-income exchange-traded funds set a blistering pace of asset gathering in the first half of 2017, easily positioning the asset class to top 2016's record inflows. Bond ETFs' torrid asset-gathering acumen this year comes even as the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates twice with...